Christmas Meeting & AGM

Our annual Christmas Meeting which showcases the excellent current research being done in history of mathematics across a variety of themes and time periods. The Annual General Meeting will take place during the lunch break, which we encourage members to attend; the AGM materials are found at the bottom of the page. 

Registration has now closed; if you would like to attend, please contact the meetings coordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk. 

Programme

A book of abstracts is available at the bottom of the page. All times are given in Greenwich Mean Time. 

10.30 Welcome

10.40 Eleonora Sammarchi (University of Bern),  “Another method is…” Alternative procedures in medieval mathematical texts: examples from the MediMath corpus

11.20 Senthil Babu (French Institute of Pondicherry),  Measure, Calculation and Value: Standardization in colonial south India in the early nineteenth century

12.00 Comfort break

12.10 Annual General Meeting (BSHM Members only: Join online here)

14.00 Meg Briers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), 'It would of course be an entire novelty to appoint a lady as an official eclipse observer': Annie Maunder’s eclipse expeditions

14.25 Erica Meszaros (Brown University),  The Algorithmic Lens in Babylonian Astronomy and Mathematics

15.05 Break 

15.15 Jessica M. Otis (George Mason University),  Popular Numeracy and Quantifying the Dead in Early Modern London

15.55 Closing Remarks

16.00 End of Meeting